a very nice TCI story for Sun
infoworld.com
"Sun, Microsoft, and the other operating system vendors have to perform," Beddow said. "So I would say destiny is in their hands."
TCI also obtained the option to license Sun's JavaOS for Consumers operating system, due out in the first half of 1999. In addition, TCI will support Sun's JavaTV API, Sun executives said on Wednesday.
Sun will collect an undisclosed licensing fee from TCI for each set-top box, officials said.
TCI wants to make sure that applications written for its devices are written to the Java API and not directly to any of the operating systems included with the set-top box, unless there is a specific reason, such as a latency issue, which requires an application to be directly tied to a particular operating system, Beddow said.
"IP telephony, for example, is one application that may be written to the OS," Beddow said in a conference call Wednesday. "We define the unit and we want to make the decision on what it will include and how applications are written to it."
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